Through her close reading, Diane Wolfe Levy reveals the complex irony in France's last volume of short stories Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. The author shows how France imbues his narration with paradoxical elements, contrasts full of irony, and complex oppositions. She also reveals the way irony is directed to both the narrator and the fictional characters. This contradictory nature reveals the lack of objectivity that the prevalent scientific method is supposed to have. Levy exemplifies the irony in its multiplicity, connecting it to the author, the reader, the narrator, and the subject of the tales.
| ISBN: | 9780807892015 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 1978 |
| Author: | Diane Wolfe Levy |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 168 pages |
| Series: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Biography: general Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Shorter Reads Biography: general |